Re: WEP in Lucent silver card

[Josh Ziering <whoredware@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: "Dan Harnett" <danh@wzrd.com>; <c5666305@hkstar.com>; <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: WEP in Lucent silver card


> This is almost certainly firmware version specific.  On OpenBSD the
> firmware rev. is listed in the kernel bootup message.  I have no
> idea what FreeBSD does.  The OpenBSD wicontrol also prints this
> info but I don't think FreeBSD's does.
>
> Anyway, I do this for an IBSS master:
>     wicontrol wi0 -p 0 -c 1 -n 'My BSSID' -q 'My BSSID'
> And for a client:
>     wicontrol wi0 -p 0 -n 'My BSSID'
>
> That is using Lucent firmware 8.10.  I have also done this with
> Prism2 cards using firmware 0.8.3.  If you are using a Lucent card
> where '-p 0' doesn't work, '-p 1' should work instead unless your
> firmware is < 6.16 in which case it does not support IBSS.  If you
> are using Prism2 firmware < 0.8.2 IBSS probably doesn't work.
>
>  - todd
>

Hmm, Still nothing. I used the command set that Todd gave, and it seems I
still can't ping my clients. My wicontrol output is:

NIC serial number:                      [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name:                           [ WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ Josh's Network ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ Josh's Network ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [ Josh's Network ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 02:05:ea:19:43:04 ]
Channel list:                           [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 11 ]
Current channel:                        [ 11 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 58 99 3 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 0 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:05:5d:d7:0c:35 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 11 ]
Maximum data length:                    [ 2304 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ On ]
Microwave oven robustness:              [ 249 3577 3602 ]
Roaming mode(1:firm,3:disable):         [ 1 ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
Card info:                              [ PRISM 2.5 ISL3873, Firmware 1.3
variant 5
WEP encryption:                         [ Off ]
Authentication type
(1=OpenSys, 2=Shared Key):              [ 1 ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]


Also, snipped dmesg parts:

wi0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Global Sun GL24110P02" rev 0x02: irq 12
wi0: "D, Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card, Version 01.02"
wi0: PRISM 2.5 ISL3873, Firmware 1.3 variant 5, address 00:05:5d:d7:0c:35

Isn't 1.3  a really high firmware number?

-Josh-